matching answers to challenges from transnational companies. Clusters are regional concentrations of firms, research and education institutions, regional development bodies ... activity. Transnational companies themselves may get involved in clusters in various ... Author: Co-Author: Institution: Magdolna Sass Miklós Szanyi Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 1112 Budapest, Budaörsi út 45. Hungary sass@econ

formation. (If Central and Eastern Europe had had the same FDI/GDP ratio in 1996 as the reference group, its inward FDI stock would have been $216 billion instead of the actual figure of $50 billion).13 Chapter IX is the only country with a ratio of FDI stock ... ratio of FDI stock to GDP, for example, is three times the world average, over twice ... s of the impor tance of inwar d FDI, by countr y able Europe: indicators importance inward by country FDI inward stock over GDP, 1996 (Per cent) FDI inward stock per capita, 1996

What is interesting are the ratios of FDI to total investment in selected ... that the accelerating inflow of FDI significantly enhances investment opportunities for the economy of the SR. The numeric data from the overview of the inflow of FDI to selected countries ... Table 21 % share of FDI in total investment of selected countries

Hopes for convergence are also located in the FDI inflows to the less developed ... Mencinger. He presented his research of an impact of FDI upon GDP growth in eight post ... the audience, as it should have. His figures unequivocally show that the correlation of FDI

Table 10: Distribution of foreign-born doctors and nurses from sub-Saharan Africa in various OECD countries, 2000 Country/region Australia Canada Denmark Finland France Great Britain Greece Hungary Ireland Luxemburg New Zealand Portugal ... of the region, students are now being churned out without the requisite rigour in learning ... of doctors has forced the South African government to recruit foreign doctors, especially